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29.0.50; Support sending patches from VC directly

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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
To: Antoine Kalmbach <ane <at> iki.fi>
Cc: 57400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57400: 29.0.50; Support sending patches from VC directly
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 07:37:39 +0000

Antoine Kalmbach <ane <at> iki.fi> writes:

>
>
> See the discussion here
>
> https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-08/msg01059.html
>
> The idea would be to support sending patches using Emacs mail user agent
> capabilities directly from VC projects. This would depend on the chosen
> VC backend and whether it has support for email-based workflows in the
> first place.
>
> The reference implementation would be for Git. A command such as
> `vc-prepare-patch`, which would prompt for a Git revision range and then
> generate a set of .patch files. These then would be opened in the mail
> user agent configured in Emacs for sending.

Have you started implementing anything yet?

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